Open Access Journal: The Folio: Bulletin of the Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center, a research center of the Claremont School of Theology

The ABMC is a non-profit research
institute of the Claremont School
of Theology that is devoted to preserving
photographic and digital images of
ancient Jewish and Christian manuscripts
and tomaking those images conveniently
available to students and scholars
for research purposes.

Below are PDF format
files of each volume of The Folio, the Bulletin
of the ABMC. Readers are welcome to download
and print editions for their personal use.

To
download, click on the file and Adobe Acrobat
will automatically open with the first page of
the volume displayed. If your browser does not
support JAVA scripting, you may right click and
save the file to your hard drive. Requests for
publications or distribution should be made to
the ABMC.

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.